Evidence for a New Light Boson from Cosmological Gamma-Ray Propagation?

Details Evidence for a New Light Boson from Cosmological Gamma-Ray Propagation? Evidence for a New Light Boson from Cosmological Gamma-Ray Propagation?

2009-02-05

arxiv.org/abs/0902.0895v1

AIP Conf.Proc.1018:147-156,2008

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics

11 pages, 2 figures, Proceeding of the Conference "Frontiers of Fundamental and Computational Physics", AIP Conference Proceed

Scientific paper

10.1063/1.2947673

An anomalously large transparency of the Universe to gamma rays has recently been discovered by the Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescopes (IACTs) H.E.S.S. and MAGIC. We show that observations can be reconciled with standard blazar emission models provided photon oscillations into a very light Axion-Like Particle occur in extragalactic magnetic fields. A quantitative estimate of this effect is successfully applied to the blazar 3C279. Our prediction can be tested with the satellite-borne Fermi/LAT detector as well as with the ground-based IACTs H.E.S.S., MAGIC, CANGAROOIII, VERITAS and the Extensive Air Shower arrays ARGO-YBJ andMILAGRO. Our result also offers an important observational test for models of dark energy wherein quintessence is coupled to the photon through an effective dimension-five operator.

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